Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-03-18
5rashear Items.

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Roads improving.
School commissioner candidates
are the latest novelty.
Homer Bailey, who has been
teaching at Fairmont, Mo-, this
winter, is with us again.
Judge Fowler of Edna was in
town Sunday and Monday visiting
his mother, Mrs. Sallie Fowler.
David n. Kennedy of Kirksville,
a candidate for county school com
missioner, was in town last Satur-
day talking election matters.
G. l.. Boynton of GreencastIe,
Mo, stopped off while Friday.
He was enroute for Hurdland and
Quincy.
Several first class railroad walk
ers passed through here Sunday
hunting work. Didn't like to be-
gin on such small job as the
Sante Fe.
Mean measles ire affecting many
people here yet.
Not much excitement this week
in railroad circles. The work is
progressing slowly as the ground
has been SO very wet it could not
be worked to any advantage.
The question agitating the minds
of our people is this, will we get a
depot ON the Santa Fe near
enough to town to be of any bene-
tit to us. Now if we could get one
nea, the river the citizens would
no doubt build canal and use the
water of Salt river to a good ad-
vantage. 1t wouldn't cost very
much, you know.
Rev. Parker, P. E. of the M. e.
church, preached Saturday even
ing, Sunday al Ii a. m. and Sun
day evening. His seamons were
very interesting. He made a
pointer when he censured our peo-
pie for coming in late to church.
1t is very bad habit, this coming
In after the minister has begun his
sermon, and the different churches
should insist on promptness.
Misses Susie and Hattie Barn
hart left Tuesday morning via
Quincy for Sedan, Kansas, where
they will visit for several weeks
Mr.. Ad Miller of this vicinity
met with painful accident one
day last week. While trying to
cut a nail in two with a hatchet a
piece of steel flew up and struck
him in the right eye, entirely de-
stroying the sight. DIR. Hopkins
went with him to Quincy and had
the steel taken out. 1t was a very
painful operation.
Brashear Academy, Business
College and Musical Institute
opened up the 9th inst. for the
spring term. The attendance is
not so large as the fall and winter
terms, but promises to be more in
teresting. The measles are de-
tanning several from school.
Mr.. Henry, our accommodating
miller, has a very sick child at
present, and its life is despaired
of.
This has been week of general
cleaning up among our house and
store keepers. Good enough. |
Make things look cozy,
William Oliver Perry, state lee
turer under the auspices of the
Missouri Temperance Lecture Bu-
reau, will lecture on the subject of
Capital and Labor. or The Politi-
cal Economy tof Prohibition" at
Brashear Academy Hall on We'd
nesday evening, the 26tn inst, at
Z o'clock: and on Monday evening,
the 2Sth. On Sunday evening he
will deliver a temperance lecture
at the NJ. e. church south. Ev-
erybody invited. Admission free.
Come and hear the leading ques-
tlons of the day discussed.
Mr.. Frank Coulson, who has
been sojourning in Illinois for sew
eral months, is once more at home,
near Brashear. He was engaged
in teaching while gone.
Misses Fannie Gould, Mollie
Nelson of Clarence, Mo-, AMI Mr..
James Gould. of Ripon, Col, are
S. P. Barr and mother.
March l6, ~. COMET.